Brassiere



A. GARSON Feb. 13, 1951 BRASSIERE Filed NOV. 9, 1948 JNVENTOR. @J'Zhur' Garsoru BY Patented Feb. 13, 1951 BRASSIERE Arthur Garson, New York, N. Y., assignor to The Lovable Bras siere 00., Atlanta, Ga., a corporation of Georgia Application November 9, 1948, Serial No. 59,169

This invention relates to brassires, and one of the objects of the invention isto provide a garment of this character of such construction that it can be comfortably worn with gowns of the low-cut type without being exposed and without failng to afford properiprotective and supporting efiect to the wearer.

.Many brassieres provided for use with low-cut gowns are often made in such a manner that in order to be concealed by the gown are of such proportions that they are insuflicient to provide the proper support for the wearer. This is particularly true of those portions of the brassiere which are located at the sides of the wearer or under the armpits. When these portions of the brass'ere are made relatively narrow, as they must be in order to be concealed by the outer garment, the same tend to bulge or gape away from the body thus exposing portions of the busts, and at the same time failing to provide proper support at the lateral sides of the busts.

It is therefore an important object of the present invention to provide a brassire which, while useful for Wear with outer garments of the lowcut style, wi'l provide a maximum bust support and at the same t'me may be cut sufiiciently low under the arms to be concealed by the outer garment yet will not gape or bulge in those porof said V-notch having hemsor pockets containing stiffening elements to thereby tend to hold 2 Claims. 01. 2-42) Fig. 1 thereof, l and 2 indicate the bust cups of the brassire; These portions of the garment may be constructed in any suitable known manher. In the form shown, these cups are indicated as being provided in their lower portions with the spaced lines of reinforcing stitching 3. Be-

, low the bust cups is shown an elastic 'nsert 4.

these portions of the flap fiatwisey against the body of the wearer and effectively prevent gaping or bulging.

These and other objects are attained by the invention, a more particular description of which wi l hereinafter appear and be set forth in the cla ms appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein an illustrative embodiment of the invention is dis- Extending rearwardy from each of the bust cups are rear extensions or flaps which extend along the sides of the wearers body, and are detachably coupled together at the rear thereof. Each of these rear extensions or flaps is composed of a pair of un ted triangulated sections or panels indicated respectively at l and 8. The triangulated section shown at 1 is indicated as be ng an integral continuation of the bust cup. The section 8 is secured adjacent to the pointed terminal or apex of the section I and overlaps this end as indicated at 9. The arrangement described is such as to form the upper edge of each of the rear extensions of flaps with a notch 23 of flattened V-shape. When the garment is worn, each of these notches will be disposed below the arms of the wearer and theback and sides of the wearer will be exposed due to the relatively low height of the section 8 and the V-notch 23.

It is desirable to prevent the notched upper edge of the flap or extension from gaping or bulging away from the body of the wearer and to avoid this possibility, the portions of the upper edge of the flap which define the V-notch are reinforced or stiffened. This is attained by providing the angular edge of the section 8 with a channel orpocket l0 containing a stiffening piece H. Similarly, the angulary extending edge of the section 1 is provided with a channel or pocket l2 in which is located an elongated stiffening piece l3. These stiife'n ng pieces H and I3 may be composed of relatively stifi but reasonably flexible material, such as plastic, Celluloid, wire or the like and the same tend to hold the top edge of each of the rear flaps, as defined by the notch 23, flatwisely and in close contact with the body of the wearer, effectively preventing gaping of this part of the garment. The length of the stiffen ng pieces is such that the same overlap or cross one another in the overlapped part 9 of the sections 7 and 8, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3.

'The ends of the two flap-sections 8 are detachably coupled together at the back ofthe wearer,

the garment will be apparent.

3 with any one of the eyelets 20 provided in the strap l9 attached to the end of the expansible loop 18 located at the end of the second flap-sec tion 8. Shoulder straps H are provided, the same 7 garment is disclosed in position of wear. It will be therein observed that the V-notch 23 is disposed at the side of the wearer al owing exposure of the body at this locality. Due to the stiffening means disposed along the top edges of the V- notch, this portion of the garment is held flatly against the body and the busts are confined within the cups and maintained against lateral spread and exposure.

While I have herein shown and described a sin le embodiment of the invention, it is obvious that the same is not to be restricted thereto but is broad enou h to cover all structures coming within the scope of the annexed claims.

What I claim is:

1. In a brassire, a bust cu a flap extending rearwardly from the outer side thereof, said flap being composed of two part y overlapped, trian gulated sections, one of said sections constituting an integral extension of the outer side of the bust cup, each of the triangulated sections having a pointed terminal, the pointed terminals of the two sections being disposed in overlapped relationship and stitched together, the top edge of In Fig. 2, the

each of the sections being angularly disposed, said angular edges of the two sections co-operating in the formation of a V-notch in the upper edge of the flap for location below the arm of the wearer when the garment is being worn, said angular top edges of the two triangulated sections being each provided with a hem or pocket, a stiffening member arranged in each pocket and following the edge along which the pocket is arranged, said stiffening members being disposed in crossed relation at the lower portion of the flap in the overlapped portions of the triangulated sections. 7

2. Ina brassiere .as provided for in claim 1 wherein one of the stiffening members has its upper end terminating at the lateral limit of the bust cup at the approximate horizontal center line thereof, the lower edges of the two triangulated sections extending ,co-extensively and being stitched together.

ARTHUR GARSON.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,299,957 Kaplan Apr. 8, 1919 2,124,112 Kapinas July 19, 1938 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 478,374 Great Britain Jan. 18, 1938 

